Political Quotes

“the House and Senate Democrats are currently meeting behind closed doors to craft a partisan campaign finance bill that they claim will bring ``reform'' to the election process. However, press reports indicate that this bill will actually deliver permanent incumbent protection along with public financing of campaigns. Not only will they impose sham ``limits'' on campaigns that could run in excess of $1 million per campaign, but the Democrats are actually going to vote to give themselves and all other candidates running for the House and Senate up to more than $300,000 in taxpayer funds, to use in their campaigns. Those taxpayer's funds are often known as welfare for the politicians. Any advocate of true campaign finance reform believes that we must reform the rules governing special interest Political Action Committee contributions. Current law allows $5,000 PAC contributions, which go overwhelmingly to incumbents. PAC's gave $94 million to House incumbents and only $12 million to House challengers in the 1991-92 election cycle. It is no wonder then that the so-called reform bill under consideration by the Democrats would maintain $5,000 PAC contributions, which favor incumbents and protect the Democrat majority in the Congress. Reports indicate that the Senate Democrats understand that PAC reform is necessary for any real campaign reform bill, and they may include a PAC ban or a $1,000 PAC limit.”